Incarceration vs. Imprisonment
Incarceration and Imprisonment Definitions
Incarceration
To put in a prison or jail.
Imprisonment
To put in or as if in prison; confine.
Incarceration
To shut in; confine.
Imprisonment
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
Incarceration
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Imprisonment
Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
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Incarceration
Strangulation, as in hernia.
Imprisonment
The state of being imprisoned;
He was held in captivity until he died
The imprisonment of captured soldiers
His ignominious incarceration in the local jail
He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
Incarceration
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Imprisonment
The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
Incarceration
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Incarceration
Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
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Incarceration
The state of being imprisoned;
He was held in captivity until he died
The imprisonment of captured soldiers
His ignominious incarceration in the local jail
He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
